Supermix bills itself as “The On-Time Concrete Company.” So it wasn’t surprising that when company president and CEO José “Pepe” Cancio, Sr., was to be sworn in as a Miami-Dade County commissioner earlier this month, he wasn’t just on time, he was early. “I’m here alone,” said 62-year-old Cancio, stating…
This past February 9, when roughly 25,000 reggae fans descended on the Virginia Key Beach Park for the 9th Annual Bob Marley Caribbean Festival, the only visible blights on an otherwise successful day were choked parking lots and lots of rain. But the event ran smoothly, greased as it was…
Inspired by an eleventh-hour defection from the enemy camp, Miami city commissioners have turned their lengthy police action against outlaw billboard companies into an all-out offensive. It appears to be a last-ditch effort to roll back one of the most stubborn insurgencies of recent consumerism. But so bold are the…
Less than a week after the horrors of September 11, 2001, three Miami-Dade County firefighters in an Opa-locka station became national pariahs after they reportedly refused to ride on trucks bearing the United States flag. Miami-Dade Fire Department spokesmen at first confirmed accounts of three fire rescue workers who were…
Al Malschick moved from Atlantic City to Miami Beach in 1954 and soon began making a living by taking pictures of celebrities. It was an easy move because his father had migrated to Miami a few years earlier to work as a bookmaker and bartender for the Syndicate. Countless times…
In 1988 Barry Kulick sold his guitar-making business and turned his hobby — underwater photography — into a career. Since then his images of marine life have appeared in many media the world over. He has traveled the watery globe in pursuit of everything from the pygmy sea horse to…
His photographs of Martin Luther King, Jr., and many pivotal events from the civil-rights era will stand the test of time. A Guggenheim Fellow, Adelman has contributed cover stories to countless magazines, published a dozen well-received books of his own photographs, and produced more than fifteen other books on subjects…
Bunny Yeager gained worldwide renown as a pinup photographer in the Fifties, when making risqué photographs was still risky business. After starting in the glamour trade as a model, she discovered that working on the other side of the camera was a better way to make a living, especially if…
Fleeing persecution, Carl Juste and his politically active family left Haiti in 1965 and lived in New York City for several years before settling in Miami in 1973. Juste has been an award-winning photographer for the Miami Herald since 1991. He recently returned from Afghanistan and Pakistan, which he covered…
Laura Paresky laughingly describes herself as a graphic designer with a camera, but her crystalline images have carried the message of Miami style to the world through numerous prominent magazines and gallery exhibitions. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Paresky says her feelings about South Florida are…
After enjoying a five-year run as an advertising and record-industry photographer in Brazil, Louis Jay moved to Miami’s Design District a decade ago, continued working hard, and has now become one of Miami’s leading advertising photographers. “Lighting a beautiful still life or injecting some humor and emotion into an advertising…
When Steve Satterwhite moved from New York to Miami more than six years ago to become staff photographer for New Times, part of his plan was to document the fall of Fidel Castro, which he believed was imminent. Castro may be trying his patience, but in the meantime he says…
Wars on drugs, terrorism, and press freedoms aside, the U.S. government is also committed to ensuring the rights of all Americans to peaceably party, particularly when the celebrants are tens of thousands of young blacks. Over the past two decades super-fetes attended by large numbers of college-age black kids have…
Anyone who wants to try to understand the looming battle over this county’s law prohibiting discrimination against gays and lesbians must first become familiar with two definitions. They come from the mind of 45-year-old Eladio José Armesto, communications director of Take Back Miami-Dade, the organization that is waging an assault…
The Memorial Day hype is washing over Miami Beach like a wall of water kicked up by some distant earthquake. And as often happens when a place becomes submerged in oceans of hype, nothing is as it seems — Luther Campbell being the prime example, but that’s another story (see…
On a Thursday morning in late April, Jerry David is sitting in the last row above home plate at the Homestead Sports Complex (HSC), stealing a little shade while he watches his son, Toby, pitch for the Pennsylvania Road Warriors. Near the first-base dugout, Jessica Luce, the only other fan…
It’s a balmy March midafternoon in the red-hot center of South Florida’s raffish, tourist-trap debauchery — South Beach. Washington Avenue, to be precise. Club Madonna, to be even more so. Of course, the hallowed lust emporium is closed now, in the middle of the day. The mirrored walls reflect nothing…
On the day the music died for Miami’s classical fans, headaches began for one radio station’s general manager. Not Mike Disney, new GM at Party 93 (WPYM-FM), the once venerable WTMI-FM (93.1) that on January 1 went and floozied itself up as a dance-music outlet to woo a younger crowd…
As a young man Robert Kraft seethed with anger and frustration. A California reunion with his estranged father did not go well. During a trip to Nashville a songwriting partner ripped off a tune that ended up being recorded by Waylon Jennings. So in the early Seventies Kraft came home…
When I ask to see a photograph of her son Luis Carlos, Juanita goes to her room and returns with a metal-framed stand-alone portrait, a thick 8×12 album, and two smaller cellophane packs. She sits down with them at the dining-room table of the handsomely appointed home where she works…
Fred Thomas has a bad feeling about Dorothy Clark. He may never know what really happened a year ago when Clark died unexpectedly at the age of 69. No one has laid to rest Thomas’s suspicions that foul play was involved in her demise. But this is the Village of…
The two most storied teams in the long history of Cuban baseball, the Havana Reds and the Almendares Blues, are waiting for the last of their teammates to show for today’s game. One Red claims he’s too tired to throw the ball around: “No puedo. Estoy cansado …” Another can’t…
